After the mechanism is completed, the disc will return to balance.
In other words, the mechanism can be triggered repeatedly as many times as there are iron beads on the disc, and each triggering is random and has no rules at all.
So, there are no less than a hundred mechanisms, large and small, hidden in the darkness of this tomb?!
Zhang Haike hung there for a long time. Someone beside him couldn't wait any longer and hurriedly asked him, "What agency is it? Do you recognize it?"
"A variant of the eighteen-stringed string, it's just a lot more complicated." Zhang Haike asked the two people beside him if they could hold on for a while.
After getting an affirmative answer, he took a deep breath, then held his breath, lit up the magnet again, took out a magnet from his treasure pocket, held it between his two fingers and carefully wound around a few silk threads on it.
, place the magnet on the disc.
In an instant, all the small iron beads were attracted to the magnet and were fixed unable to move.
But the magnet couldn't be taken out no matter what, Zhang Haike didn't care, flipped off the steel cable and landed lightly on the ground next to the bronze horse.
The moment he landed, he saw that the disc instantly sensed vibrations and tilted in the direction of his feet. However, because all the iron beads on it were sucked and unable to roll, no accident occurred.
After waiting quietly for a while, they finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that nothing really happened.
Someone said: "The kid said it was so scary, but it turned out to be easy."
Zhang Haike was noncommittal. Fortunately, he had seen an old man before. In order to demonstrate the function of eighteen strings, he specially made a seventy-two string mechanism. Although he was not used to dealing with this kind of mechanism, he had learned a little bit about it. Fortunately, he had learned a little bit about it.
Luck prevailed and he made the right bet.
A few people took off the steel cables and put them away, and were about to continue exploring the tomb. Someone asked if they wanted to call down the guy above.
"What do you want him to do?" The person who said he was relaxed said very unhappily, "He can't do anything. We have to take care of such a small person, and he can't be very obedient."
"Let him stay up there. We'll finish the work neatly first and then call him. Seeing as he put in some effort when digging the robbery hole in front of us, we'll share it with him when we find something good."
At one point, let him do the work."
Zhang Haike thought for a while and then agreed.
It's not that he feels like he's a burden, but that this ancient tomb is really complicated. The first mechanism alone is so sharp, and I'm afraid it will be even more difficult in the future. It would be better to leave someone on top to take care of him.
This was the first time for everyone to see the real "eighteen-string" mechanism, and they were all stunned when they saw the tangled thin wires inside.
Someone looked around along the direction in which the thread extended, and suddenly thought of something, "How can there be so much space here?"
"What?" Zhang Haike didn't understand what he meant.
The man added: "Assuming that every thread here is connected to a mechanism, the space here cannot hide hundreds of mechanisms. Even if they are crowded together, it will not be a very lethal mechanism. At least it can be activated.
The mechanism hub would have to occupy half of the space, so there simply cannot be so many mechanisms here."
Zhang Haike immediately realized that what the other party said was right and asked, "What do you think?"
"I think these hundreds of threads may affect the same mechanism, but when the threads are triggered, only a small part of this huge mechanism is running, and it is different every time." The man said.
"You mean... string puppet?" Zhang Haike hesitated for a moment and thought of a word to describe it.
The man nodded, "That's what it means. Different threads affect different parts of the puppet. Only in this way can the problem of insufficient space be explained."
After a child simulated the triggering of the mechanism in his mind, a large puppet suddenly emerged from the wall. It walked towards them awkwardly with its legs pulled by the silk thread. As a result, it got stuck after taking only a few steps because the mechanism stopped.
Halfway down the road.
Then attack with a hammer. By the time you get to them, they will have disappeared.
"The machine hidden in the wall can't be a puppet, isn't that funny?" the child said.
The child who spoke earlier rolled his eyes when he heard this, "I'm just telling you a metaphor."
"Oh, that's it." The child scratched his ear, "Then according to what you said, the mechanism driven by this machine is probably not the offensive mechanism we thought."
The children present were very smart, and their minds turned around immediately. They had already checked that the tomb was completely closed, and the only movable mechanism in the entire space was the bronze horse in front of them. Therefore, the new passage must be related to this.
Related to the bronze horse.
"If it's a mule or a horse, you'll know if you dig it out and take it for a walk," Zhang Haike said.
Everyone agreed, but they didn't find anything like a mechanism hub where they first dug in, which meant that the mechanism was hidden in the walls on both sides, or under their feet.
But the inner structure of most of these places should be green granite. Even if they were given a week, they would not be able to open this hard rock.
Therefore, the only way is to touch the mechanism here.
They have been delayed here for too long and must make progress.
Several people climbed out of the tomb again and hid behind the passage of the robbery cave. They saw the little brother squatting obediently at the corner.
Apparently their conversation just now was overheard by the little brother. Although the little brother didn't say anything, they still felt a little embarrassed.
Zhang Haike first carefully fixed the fire break on the edge of the gap on the bronze horse's back, then used the back of his knife to knock off a small piece from the green brick on the ground. After grinding it on the ground until it was about the same size as the original small iron bead, he turned over and climbed up.
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With the faint light of the fire, Zhang Haike flicked the brick ball towards the inside of the bronze horse with a click of his fingers. After a series of slight impact sounds, everyone held their breath and waited for the mechanism to start.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Zhang family has excellent hearing, and soon their ears caught a series of rustling sounds coming from the tomb. The sounds were extremely small, like rubbing against the fabric of their clothes.
, it is completely impossible to tell where it is coming from. Ordinary people would definitely not be able to hear this sound.
Everyone listened more carefully. Three to five seconds later, suddenly, the entire tomb was shaken heavily. The painting of Jiutian Xuannv on the floor began to tremble and tremble. The floor where Xuannv's left eye was slowly sunk downwards.
Zhang Haike threw a fire stick in as fast as he could, and the light passed quickly. They also saw clearly that there was a dark passage going downwards where the floor was sunken. It was very steep and looked like a deep well from a high place.
After waiting for a moment, nothing else happened in the tomb. After testing for a while, they felt that there was really not much danger, so they entered the tomb again and came to the deep well. This time, the little brother also
He followed him down silently.
Standing on the edge and looking in, I found that the passage was deep and strange. The first short section was obviously reinforced with blue bricks later, and then it turned into loess, and you can see many obvious
The mark made by the shovel.
This is actually a burglary hole?!
How is this possible? Why does such an ancient mechanism appear to be a man-made robbery hole after it is activated?
Zhang Haike leaned in, took a sniff, and affirmed: "This hole was dug by our colleagues a long time ago. The air inside is the air of death. In other words, our place is the starting point of the real tomb chamber."
Several people were a little dumbfounded at the same time, "Didn't they dig it in from outside?"
"Probably not." Zhang Haike shook his head, "It's too deep down there and you can't see the end. Moreover, I suddenly have a clue about the unique structure of the place we are in."
"It is very likely that this is not a tomb at all, but a linka set up here by the tomb robbers in the past. In order to facilitate future actions, there must be very, very precious and important things down here." Zhang Haike said solemnly.
Linka means that when a tomb robber finds an ancient tomb that is particularly difficult to enter, for the purpose of long-term action, he will build a temporary rest stop next to the robber's cave.
For example, there are particularly deserted small earthen temples in some deep mountains. If there is a deep cave behind it, this small temple was actually built by the local masters to deceive the local people for convenience.
They would hoard food and equipment in Linka and work underground for a long time.
Most of the Linkas are relatively simple small houses, of course, there are also strong ones like fortresses.
However, something as detailed as the current one can even look like a fake ancient tomb, which means that it will take more than ten or decades to excavate the ancient tomb below, and it is more likely to be passed down to the next two or three generations. And an ancient tomb of this nature,
Its value even exceeds that of ordinary royal tombs.
The more everyone thought about it, the more frightened they became. If this was really just a Linka, it could explain some of the unreasonable things.
But Linka is just a temporary resting place, so why hang so many things on it?
And with their eyes, it was not difficult to see that these things were real antiques. It was probably that the tomb robbers had taken local materials and moved them from the ancient tombs underneath to hang them up.
"I'll lend you your shoulder." Zhang Haike greeted one of them.
The man subconsciously tensed up his body. Zhang Haike stepped on his slightly curved thigh and jumped up. He quickly kicked his shoulder with the other foot to gain strength. He flew into the air and stretched out his hands to wrap his arms around the man hanging on the tomb.
The copper bottle on top is resting on it.
The copper bottle swayed violently like a chandelier for a while, then gradually stopped.
Zhang Haike realized something when he was just wandering around. He hurriedly took out the fire stick from his treasure pocket, blew on it twice to let it burn again, and then lifted it up to see the connection between the top of the tomb and the thing. At this look, his expression changed.
That's a little bit bad.
He then looked at the joints between the coffin and other hanging funerary objects, and found that they all had similar openings as big as the mouth of a bowl. He clamped the copper bottle with his legs and let go of his other hand to touch what was in the opening.
The contact surface has a smooth arc shape, which means that the chains used to hang funerary objects are hung on it. They are iron balls that are just a little larger than the hole. They can be stuck inside, but they will not be in the
The funerary objects fell when they were wandering around.
Zhang Haike let go and jumped down, half-bent his knees to absorb the impact, stood up and said seriously: "Everyone, this is really a Linka."
"Why is Linkari made like this? What did you see on it?" others asked.
"Iron balls and chains are all made of iron balls, and the things are hung with buckles and springs made of steel bars. This not only can hang things, but also achieves a shock-absorbing effect without affecting the shaking of these things.
." Zhang Haike replied.
"They have no choice but to make this place look like this. It's like a simple version of a seismograph. I'm afraid there's a big guy hiding under this tomb. Everything here is designed to shock, including the bronze horse."
"You mean, they are doing this to prevent danger below? To be able to escape in time?" someone asked.
"It's not just that." Zhang Haike tapped the ground with his toes, "Only when the vibrations here are big enough and frequent enough, hanging those funerary objects on it is like a hammock hung on a sea ship. Sailors sleep in hammocks, no matter how the ship
They will not fall down due to bumps, so they can have a good rest, and similarly, the funerary objects will not be damaged in the bumps caused by the earthquake."
Everyone was thoughtful after listening to his words.
Someone analyzed: "In other words, all the materials used to build this place were taken locally. The bluestone slabs were too heavy, so they laid them on the ground and used blue bricks to build this place. Therefore, this Linka
Below, there must be a large ancient tomb, and its scale must be very large."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Not only is there a big tomb, but there is also a big danger below." Someone hit the nail on the head and gave the excited crowd a chill, "Don't forget the Bronze Horse Trap.
It is set up here to guard the opening. Whether it is to facilitate the escape of tomb robbers or to hide other entrances remains to be discussed."
Indeed, there are more than just these threads in the body of the bronze horse, and it is likely that the bluestone slabs in other parts of the mural can also sink, exposing the passages underneath.
Zhang Haike nodded, "What you said makes sense. No matter what, we have to go down and take a look."
Needless to say nonsense, everyone followed Zhang Haike and jumped into the deep well.
It went straight down, using both feet as brakes for four or five minutes before Zhang Haike reached the bottom.
After whistling upward, Zhang Haike walked away with a fire seal and found that this place really looked like the bottom of a well. There was a curved wall also made of blue bricks, with a hole in it, only the size of a fist.
After everyone slid down, Zhang Haike pointed to the small opening for them to see.
He had just thrown a firecracker into it, but it hit something and was extinguished.
"What's in this?" Someone put the fire folder to the entrance of the hole and looked inside. Unfortunately, the hole was too small and the fire couldn't shine further inside.
He couldn't help but curl his lips and said: "Who can leave such a hole to look at? It's not enough even for peeping."
The others chuckled.
"Okay, don't be poor." Zhang Haike waved his hand, "Extend one hand in, whose turn is it?"
Now no one could laugh anymore.
"That kid, I'll do it anyway."
Although this kid said he despised the younger brother as a burden, or perhaps underestimated the younger brother's abilities, he still stood up when the real danger came.
No one knows what's inside, and those who take action can only gamble with one hand. End of this chapter